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BBC Radio 1's In New Music We Trust Live

Friday 28 January

7.00pm-5.00am BBC RADIO 1

Tonight is a huge night for dance music with the second of BBC Radio 1's free new music events for January – taking place at Sheffield University Student Union.

Annie Mac kicks off proceedings at 7pm from the student bar with her official start to the weekend, broadcast in front of an audience and featuring special guests Breakage and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, plus new additions to Radio 1's In New DJs We Trust, Skream and Benga.

The party continues in Sheffield at 9pm with Pete Tong playing the hottest new dance tracks alongside special guests, plus more from Skream and Benga. From 11pm, Judge Jules kick-starts a six-hour marathon of dance music over two rooms at the Student Union with special live guests and DJ sets from the Radio 1 dance family bringing together a mammoth night covering the wide spectrum of new dance music.

Presenters/Annie Mac and Pete Tong, Producers/Becci Abbott for BBC Radio 1 and Tom Koenig for Somethin' Else Productions

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Claudia Winkleman takes a look at Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy which runs from 22 January to 7 April. It is the first exhibition for 30 years to examine British sculpture of the 20th century.

Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson for the BBC

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Performance On 3

Friday 28 January

7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3

Vassily Sinaisky conducts two works by Czech composers which surround a work by a composer often influenced by Slavic music. Dvořák's Slavonic Dances took Brahms's similarly titled set as their inspiration. But, whereas Brahms used actual folk melodies, Dvořák's pieces took the character of folk dances but the melodies are entirely his own.

Brahms's epic First Piano Concerto is performed by Croatian pianist Dejan Lazic. He recently made his own piano and orchestra transcription of Brahms's Violin Concerto.

Janácek's Taras Bulba is an orchestral fantasy that takes three key moments from a novel by Gogol which recount the death of the protagonist and his sons. The programme is broadcast live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Mike George

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Poet Ian McMillan presents The Verb

Ian McMillan bursts onto the air with BBC Radio 3's language cabaret. This week, cellist Steven Isserlis performs excerpts from his musical fairy stories for children and characterises the distinctive story-telling voice of the cello.

And novelist David Vann sets out his theory that American writers unconsciously turn to Anglo-Saxon words when they're evoking landscape and scale.

Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producers/Erin Riley and Dymphna Flynn

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Aasmah Mir explores the sexual pressures faced by teens in Britain today.

At a time when young people are more exposed than ever to extreme sexual and violent behaviour, the programme hears about the work being done on the frontline, with the children who many people think are growing up too fast.

Aasmah looks into the factors that imply sexual violence is on the increase in the early teens and meets youth workers at the sharp end. Teenage Kicks asks those working with young people and teenagers themselves what can be done to help them develop healthy relationships.

Presenter/Aasmah Mir, Producer/Lizz Pearson for the BBC

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Hip hop and high notes collide when rapper YT falls in love with a young soprano in Penny Woolcock's romantic comedy.

Sway plays rapper YT, who is sent to collect a debt from a conductor at an opera house. He hears Gabrielle sing the aria Signore, ascolta from Puccini's Turandot and falls in love. But she is fixated on the conductor and is appalled when YT pursues her down the street, rapping to beats on his phone.

Desperate, he steals a recording of her aria and mixes a club tune that becomes a huge underground hit. It leads to clubbers demanding more opera and he persuades her to sing on his radio show. As their music collides, Puccini never sounds quite the same again. But gangster brother Honey Monster casts a long shadow over the young lovers. He wants his money back, and he is not choosy about his methods.

YT And The Soprano features a specially composed soundtrack by Sway, featuring the voice of Claire Watkins.

The cast stars: Sway as YT; Claire Watkins as Gabrielle; Ashley Gerlach as Scoobs; Mark Monero as Honey Monster; Claire-Louise Cordwell as Lily; and Marc Warren as Adam. The sound design is by Eloise Whitmore.

Producer/Melanie Harris for Crosslab Productions

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Colin Murray takes a look at the weekend's FA Cup fourth-round ties and all the weekend's sporting action in Kicking Off.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr

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Tennis

Friday 28 January

8.30am-1.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on the second men's semi final at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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King and queen of indie music radio, Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, return for a special one-off Evening Session.

Over a decade since the end of the legendary Evening Session on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music takes up the mantle and turns back the clock to bring listeners the programme that soundtracked the Nineties.

Steve and Jo are reunited to pick their favourite tracks from the era and some of today's best new music too.

They're joined for live sessions by Libertines front man Carl Barat, who plays tracks from his career including his self-titled debut solo album released last year; and Chapel Club, who play their first BBC 6 Music session ahead of the imminent release of their hotly tipped debut album Palace.

Presenters/Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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Tom Ravenscroft features a guest mix from Wirral-based producer Matthew Barnes, better known as dub/grime/soul act Forest Swords.

Claiming to sound like: "River hymns + damp woods + dry leaves + sea winds", Forest Swords' recent album, Dagger Paths, has collected plaudits from all corners of the music press and should be a very interesting listen.

Presenter/Tom Ravenscroft, Producer/Adam Hudson

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